ITC - International
Transport Contractors were incorporated in 1973
as a ship management company for the Norwegian
organisation Tschudi & Eitzen and in 2003 became
part of that group.

For this website
our interest in the company was initiated by
their purchase of a number of the Maersk L class
anchor-handlers and the classic Smit vessels the
Typhoon and Tempest. According to their news
pages they have also added two further anchor
handlers the ITC Cyclone and ITC Chinook. They
are bareboated from Indian company Marsol.

Updated 7/11/11,
suspect that Tempest is on the point of being
sold.

At the 2013 review
it could be seen that the name of the company
had changed to Tschudi Offshore and Towage. It
does not really trip off the tongue like ITC but
never mind. The name of this page is changed as
a consequence. Feb 2013

At the 2014 review
the Typhoon and the tempest are long gone, and
actually one has sunk in Nigeria and i think the
other has gone to the breakers. A distressing
end for two groundbreaking ships. But back in
Tschudi nothing has happened, although the
Blizzard towed the wreck of the Costa Concordia
from Giglio to Genoa.